How far is fidji - Reloaded

This blog is an infrared echo to Matthias Ernst's last post titled "How far is fidji".

1. get rid of checked exceptions :
   For me the problem is not checked/unchecked exception but the fact that in the JDK, some places abuse of checked exceptions like reflection, rmi etc. I agree with matthias that it could be easy to add a keyword to transform or not xhecked exception to runtime exception but a checked exception like IOException is vital for a decent programming language. You can't reuse a lib that performs networking and get rid of checked exceptions.
2. fill the void :
   One proposed annotation of the JSR 305 is about that.
3. add type inference for locals:
   I totally agree with matthias, you don't have to declare local variable if you won't. And i hope it will be included into dolphin. C# has already that with the keyword var.
4. add reliable closing of iterators in the for-each loop:
   I prefer to use a JDK method for doing that, by example, using the proposed for syntax by neal gafter.
5. Resource literals: The ressource section of the JSR 277 is not a mecanism close to what matthias want.

So I don't know how far we are from Fidji but i know that we are not so far from Java :)